Corn-sheller.



PATENTED OUT. 17, 1905..

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APPLICATION FILED MAR.B,1905.

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No. 802,273. PATENTED 001'. 17, 1905. D. BIKENBERRY. CORN SHELLER.

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APPLICATION EILED MAR.8,1905.

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IIID STATES EATENT OFFO.

DANIEL G. EIKENBERRY. OF BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TOB. S. CONSTANT COMPANY, OF BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS.

CORN-'SHELLER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 17, 1905.

Application filed March 8, 1905. Serial No. 249,052.

To all rah/0111, it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL Gr. EIKENBERRY, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at -Bloomington, in the county of McLean and State ofIllinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Corn-Shellers, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in corn-shellers.

It has for its object, primarily, to simplify the construction of parts,especially with the view to greatly reduce or lessen the expense or costrequired to repair or renew any of said parts; also, to provide for thedirect delivery or passage of the shelled corn, &c., from the sheller tothe usual elevating means and to carry out these ends with facility andeflectiveness.

Said invention consists of certain structural features substantially ashereinafter fully disclosed, and particularly pointed out by the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred embodiment ofmy invention, Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section thereof. Fig.1 is a fractional detailed plan view of one of the blades of one of thesheller members. Fig. 2 is a cross-section produced through the conicalor shelling portion of the machine. Fig. 3 is a view, partly in plan andpartly in horizontal section thereof; and Fig. 4115a vertical transversesection taken through the trunk or delivery end of the machine.

In the disclosure of my invention 1 suitably mount upon a framing 1. ofpeculiar construction, as presently more fully described, the shaft 2 ofthe usual conical member 2 of a sheller and secure to the lower sides orsurfaces of the longitudinal pieces or bars 1 of said framing the lowerhalf member or section 3 of the casing 3, inclosing said sheller member2. Said lower casing member or section 3 is in continuation formed withwhat constitutes the hopper-bottom or the member forming the bottom ofthe hopper, presently noted. To the upper surfaces of said longitudinalbars or pieces 1 is secured the upper half member or section 3 of saidcasing 3. Also to the same surfaces of said bars is secured the usualhopper 4: 'for receiving the ear-corn for feeding to sheller. Said lowerand upper casing members are adapted, as shown and as well known, tocooperate with said conical sheller member in effecting the shellingoperation. Heretofore the ordinary form of hopper has had its bottom,which is longitudinally slotted, as well known, secured to the uppersurfaces of the framing longitudinal bars and said hopper secureddirectly upon said bottom, making it necessary to remove all of these inevent the bottom member required repairing or renewal. I obviate thenecessity of displacing or removing the hopper with the removal of thebottom member by securing said bottom member to the under sides of theframing longitudinal bars, thus separating it from said hopper. Ineffecting the foregoing connec tions the longitudinal bars or pieces Iof the framing 1 are provided along their upper and lower edges withlateral or outstanding flanges 1 l and providing said upper and lowercasing or sheller members 3 3" along their longitudinal edges withcorresponding fianges 3* 3 and suitably securing said members to saidlongitudinal bars by passing bolts 5 through holes 3" in said flanges 33 and slots 1 I in said flanges 1 l, as seen particularly in Fig. 3,said bolts of course being held in place by nuts 5, applied to theirthreaded end portions. Said longitudinal bars I of the framing are alsosuitably adapted or equipped, as shown especially in Fig. 3, forcoaction with the conical sheller member 2 in effecting the shellingoperation. Both the lower easing-scction and that part thereof formingthe bottom of the hopper A are imperforate throughout, as(.listinguisl'ied from the correspondingparts of the ordinary form ofsheller. Said lower casiliig member or section has its flared ordelivery end onlarged into a semicircular or arcuate trough liketerminal 3" and the upper casing n1ember or section similarly enlargedor terminated atits correspondingend, with the arcuate trough-liketerminal thereof, 3 thus formed opposed to and forming a continuation ofthe part 3, thus conjointly constituting a circular chamber to receivethe shelled corn and cobs from the sheller as the same are thrownthereinto by the centrifugal action of the latter. Said upper part 3" isprovided with a trunk-like outlet or chute 3 which in practice connectswith and delivers into a corresponding length of conductor.

The shellermemberQ is equipped or armed at the peripheral edge of itsenlarged or flared end with outstanding right-lined blades, lugs,

or flanges 2 spaced apart at certain intervals and adapted to engage thecorn and cobs as they issue from the sheller and effective to direct thesame in the plane of the circular end chamber formed by the parts 3" 3and expedite the delivery of said corn and cobs out through the chute oroutlet 3 1501 the advantageous disposal thereof, as is apparent. Thesheller has its shaft driven by any means for effecting the shellingoperation.

It will be noted that by the foregoing construction and arrangement ofparts the making, as heretofore practiced, of an excavation or pit isavoided, into which to locate or sink the base end of an elevator-bootto provide for delivering thereinto by gravity the contents from thesheller, which pit or excavation has usually had arranged therein asteel or cast-iron tank or been lined with cement for protection of theelevator, &c., from water, &c., all of which is expensive andunnecessarily elaborate.

, Latitude is allowed regarding details herein, since they may bechanged as circumstances suggest without departing from the spirit of myinvention.

1 claim 1. A machine of the character described, comprising two casingmembers, practically semiconical in general outline the greater portionof their lengths, with the outer flared portions thereof terminating inlateral semicircular enlargements conjointly forming a circulardischarging chamber, lower and upper rectangular hopper sections ormembers, lateral longitudinal bars of corresponding outline with saidcasing and hopper sections 'or members, respectively, and eifective forattachment to the latter, and a rotary sheller member arranged withinsaid casing members and adapted for coaction therewith, and carrying atits flared end radial outstanding flanges or blades arranged to extendinto the aforesaid circular chamber of said casing members.

2. A machine of the character described, comprising casing members,having their flared ends provided with arcuate oflset portionsconjointly forming an annular chamber having a right-lined outlet orchute, one of said casing members forming the hopper-bottom, and theother hopper member serving to support said hopper-bottom and thehopper, a rotary sheller member having its flared end provided withoutstanding blades or flanges, arranged in said chamber, in radial lineswith relation to the axis of said sheller member, and a supporting-framehaving its longitudinal bars provided at their upper and lower edgeswith lateral flanges having securing bolts or fastenings passingtherethrough, also inserted through flanges of said casing members.

3. A machine of the character described, comprising asheller memberhaving outstanding from its delivery end flanges, blades or lugs, aninclosing casing therefor having an enlarged annular chamber receivingsaid flanges, blades or lugs, said casing embracing the hopper-bottommember provided with lateral flanges. a supporting-frame having itslongitudinal bars orpieccs provided along their longitudinal edges withlateral flanges and fastening-bolts passing through openings, and slotsproduced in said flanges, respectively.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two subscribingwitnesses.

DANIEL G. EIKEWBERRY.

Vitnesses:

F. Y. HAMILTON, IONA G. CONSTANT.

